Scout Blum
@scoutblum.bsky.social
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Environmental historian and game designer; mom to an amazing boy and animals.
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EPA enforcement declines in Trump administration, reports say
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/08/e...
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EPA enforcement declines in Trump administration, reports say
Reports from separate environmental agencies show that U.S. EPA enforcement has decreased since President Donald Trumpâs inauguration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/08/epa-enforcement-declines-in-trump-administration-reports-say/
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
5 days ago
NOAAâs Regional Climate Center tools & data are affected by funding cuts, staffing gaps, & deferred maintenance. If you rely on RCC tools for your work, we'd love to hear from you. We're collecting anonymous feedback to identify what's at risk & where support is needed:
forms.gle/LwjQZ7YwL6MshKV68
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Regional Climate Center Tool Feedback
Please share your experience using RCC tools and data portals. Your input helps improve reliability, usability, and data freshness across the system. This form takes about 5 minutes and is anonymous.
https://forms.gle/LwjQZ7YwL6MshKV68
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EPA enforcement declines in Trump administration, reports say
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/08/e...
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EPA enforcement declines in Trump administration, reports say
Reports from separate environmental agencies show that U.S. EPA enforcement has decreased since President Donald Trumpâs inauguration.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/08/epa-enforcement-declines-in-trump-administration-reports-say/
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Never mind the jobs you had; tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Mayan hieroglyphics 2. The Cuban Missile Crisis 3. The Milky Way 4. Differential equations 5. Shakespeare's Plays
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 1 month ago
No, these are very serious comments. ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell. And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.
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Count Mysterioso
about 1 month ago
This is quite a post
www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
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Zebadiah Carter
about 1 month ago
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL work here:
ice.0x0.boo
It's a tracker for the number of blocks. They're averaging about 200/minute right now. đ¤Ł
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
4 months ago
Congress has not yet approved EPAâs proposal to slash its budget by a massive 50%, yet the agency has *already* cut far more staff than in its proposal - 25% by EDGIâs count, and likely more by yearâs end. EDGIâs
@scoutblum.bsky.social
and Chris Sellers explain:
theconversation.com/trump-admini...
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Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agencyâs ability to keep pollution out of air and water
Careful research into public information and in-depth interviews has shown the scale of personnel cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency.
https://theconversation.com/trump-administration-is-on-track-to-cut-1-in-3-epa-staffers-by-the-end-of-2025-slashing-agencys-ability-to-keep-pollution-out-of-air-and-water-265249
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A print and play game about diversity in games I designed for the Playing Inside series!
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An op-ed I did with Chris Sellers:
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Proud to have been a small part of this report - many congrats to Chris Sellers for his thorough, hard work!
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This is a great project and already generating some fascinating information from interviewees! If you are a federal employee in env'l, health, energy, climate work, please contact us!
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BoardGameGeek
11 months ago
Feedback: I asked game publishers how they plan to respond to newly announced U.S. tariffs, and here's a sampling of their responses:
boardgamegeek.com/blog/1/blogp...
That post features only 15 of more than a hundred responses, so I'll post another round-up tomorrow. âWEM
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Prof. Catherine Flick
11 months ago
I have a few masters level students who are looking for responses to surveys about games, so if youâre in the mood to fill out fun forms Iâll make a thread of them here! First one is about horror games:
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Microsoft Forms
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=8nivV33IZkS3u2tsyZ7RJMVnkirV8bZHs2U39rnCEFlUN1dCQVVZT1dBNE5DTjZRMVIxVDZUMU9KWS4u
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
11 months ago
1/ Earlier this month, the Trump EPA announced it would cancel 100s of grants already authorized by congress. EDGI &
@publicenvirodata.bsky.social
have released a map highlighting the impacts of cancellations on
#EnvironmentalJustice
communities. Learn more here:
envirodatagov.org/new-environm...
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New Environmental Justice Grants Map Highlights Impacts of EPA Fund Cancellations â Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2025 CONTACT: EDGIâs experts are available to answer media questions. For media inquiries, please email Shannan Lenke [âŚ]
https://envirodatagov.org/new-environmental-justice-grants-map-highlights-impacts-of-epa-fund-cancellations/
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Joanne Freeman
11 months ago
Truth đŹ
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Rising Waters has been reviewed in the American Historical Review! This is one of the flagship historical journals - so cool to see board games getting a place alongside other scholarship.
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
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Scout Blum, designer. Rising Waters: A Game Based on the 1927 Mississippi Flood.
In the evolving landscape of historical pedagogy, Rising Waters, designed by Scout Blum, emerges as a notable attempt to bridge the gap between interactive
https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae615
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Bellingcat
11 months ago
Are you a keen researcher and passionate about environment or wildlife investigations? Bellingcat is looking for wildlife and environment related investigations that use open source methods and tools.
www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...
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Pitch Wildlife and Environmental investigations to Bellingcat - bellingcat
If your source material is online and public, and your story unearths something deeper about our planet, we'd love to hear from you.
https://www.bellingcat.com/uncategorized/2025/03/13/pitch-wildlife-and-environmental-investigations-to-bellingcat/
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Dolly Jørgensen
12 months ago
We have two openings left in the Greenhouse
#envhum
book talk series this spring: April 7 & 28. Talks are at 4pm Central European time, but we move it to 10am if we have a guest from Asia/Australia. If you have a new book (2024 or 2025) that you'd like to present on one of these dates, contact me!
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The Greenhouse â Center for Environmental Humanities
https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/
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NiCHE Canada
12 months ago
This is the introduction to an entire series that we co-published with
@activehist.bsky.social
on historians confronting climate change, which you can peruse here:
niche-canada.org/tag/historia...
#envhist
#climhist
#climatechange
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Amee Vanderpool
12 months ago
Here is a great website, where you can put in your zip code and see what specific cuts in Social Security in your area Republicans are proposing and what that will mean for you specifically.
democrats-budget.house.gov/house-republ...
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Carbon Brief
12 months ago
Recommended read: A research librarian and policy scholar in North America outlined in
@us.theconversation.com
how to âfind climate data and science the Trump administration doesnât want you to seeâ. đ
@ericnost.bsky.social
Alejandro Paz
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How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesnât want you to see
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data â some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
https://buff.ly/41qDV3H
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Jen Bendery
12 months ago
Trump's DOJ has erased a report from its website that lays out its own recommendations for tackling violence against Indigenous women
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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Trumpâs DOJ Erases Report On Violence Against Native American Women
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-white-house-live-updates_n_67aa443de4b0cced3687c9ec/liveblog_67b4f9e5e4b08e2e24824c73
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society
about 1 year ago
We are looking forward to your applications!
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Fort Circle
about 1 year ago
Hey, everybody, I just wanted to let you all know that Tory Brown
@downtowntbrown.bsky.social
(designer of Votes for Women) will be on NPR's 1A program on Thursday at 11:20am (eastern time).
the1a.org
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The Conversation U.S.
about 1 year ago
People with less knowledge about
#AI
are actually more open to using it, challenging the assumption that tech-savvy individuals are the most eager adopters. Business professors explain the âlower literacy-higher receptivityâ link â when people think itâs âmagicâ:
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Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives â new research
People with less AI literacy often see the technology as âmagicalâ and awe-inspiring.
https://buff.ly/4g6ONHR
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Chalkbeat
about 1 year ago
Teacher harassment is making headlines. Itâs past time for school districts to address it.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2024/12/23/malvern-teacher-tiktok-harassment-case-teacher-bullying-is-old-news/
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Itâs past time to address teacher harassment
The problem has long plagued educators online and off.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2024/12/23/malvern-teacher-tiktok-harassment-case-teacher-bullying-is-old-news/
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative
about 1 year ago
âThe first Trump admin altered or deleted numerous federal web pages containing public-facing climate information, according to monitoring efforts by the nonprofit Environmental Data and Governance Initiative, which tracks changes on federal websites.â
www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
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Scientists Scramble to Save Climate Data from TrumpâAgain
Federal climate databases remained largely intact during President-elect Donald Trumpâs first term. Scientists say the threats are bigger this time
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-scramble-to-save-climate-data-from-trump-again/
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Louisa
about 1 year ago
Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldnât believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but itâs especially imperative to inoculate kids against this
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Dolly Jørgensen
about 1 year ago
Coming up Monday 2 December 2024, 16:00 Central European time: Elena Kochetkova on Greenhouse
#envhum
book talk series to discuss The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology (MIT Press, 2024) Join us!
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
#envhist
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Online book talk: Kochetkova, Green Power of Socialism â The Greenhouse
https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/events/booktalk/online-book-talk-kochetkova-green-power-of-socialism/
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Central Michigan University Press
about 1 year ago
This
#GivingTuesday
level up education through the Center for Learning through Games and Simulations and CMich Press, where innovation meets education. Power the future of game-based learning & design:
giving.apps.cmich.edu/fund/9100111
. The first $1k donated will be matched $2 for every $1 given.
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Proud to have worked with a great group of historians on this.
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Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you arenât working on but keep thinking about. 1) children's environmental attitudes in the 60s and 70s 2) a history of ideas abt Mars (spec w/environ ideas)
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Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you arenât working on but keep thinking about. 1) children's environmental attitudes in the 60s and 70s 2) a history of ideas abt Mars (spec w/environ ideas)
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